I run my own mail server, not blacklisted. Now I'm a bit of a special case, I know mail well.

But when a moderately technical colleague wanted to do the same, I told her to use Mox, she set it up and Gmail doesn't block her either.

So... would you please elaborate?

I find there are three peopls who comment about hosting email. A small group like us who set it up correctly and never have problems. A larger group who set it up but get the dns wrong and warn people not to. And a third bigger group who never tried but listen to the second group and always comment that you'll have 1% deliverability

FWIW the same approach was proposed in the nineties. IIRC the main argument against was that the argument to support it is even worse than for v6. The first few sites to get non-4 addresses aren't reachable by anyone, and have to ask everyone to extend their stack and listen to an endless series of answers along the lines of "our existing stack has IP routing to everyone else, why don't you deal with your problem instead of bothering us".

I guess it's an RFC 1925 reference. Truth 6: If you can make a few specific people responsible for making everyone migrate/extend, life's simpler for everyone (else). And truth 11: 30 years later, the same proposal but garnished with JWT.

The price for grid power ought to be somewhat higher than the the grid operator(s) pay at the place where the power is delivered into the grid plus their own costs for running the actual grid. So what do you think is a fair price for building/maintaining/running the grid?

The grid is a nationwide electrical circuit with requirements to connect to most buildings, and with demanding uptime and safety requirements. How much ought building and maintaining that to cost?

>So what do you think is a fair price for building/maintaining/running the grid?

Zero. I think we do not need the national grid and its vastly overpriced (order of magnitude) electricity anymore. A local DC grid, an abundance of solar and huge batteries is all you need.

For example in the Netherlands, 18 million people, 9 million houses or buildings, the national grid needs to triple in size and 1 million houses and almost 20.000 large companies are on a 10 year waiting list to get a connection (so the move abroad or build their own solar grid). And even if you are on the grid, you pay 50% taxes and €0,31 to €0,78 per kWh. If you are on our Enernet, you only pay around €0.0044 per kWh ($0.0051756/kWh). That is 70 times to 177 times overpriced!!! (calculations in this thread lower down).

You need to get better informed.

Compare this with Musk, for example: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CATL:VIE?hl=en&window=6...

I'm one of that 0.1%, since my yearly salary is more than about USD90k. And my attached wealth is the most typical kind, too: my wife and I bought a place to live, which we haven't sold in the 20+ years since moving in. It probably could be sold for a fair bit more than we paid: untaxed wealth.

I suspect that we won't pay 100% tax on whatever we earn when we sell, if we sell, but if we were taxed 100% I'm sure something nice could be done with that money.

I'm quite impressed by the rhetorical skill here. It's easy to overlook that what they're saying is "by taxing something/someone 100%, it would be possible to...", ie. "If pigs would fly, it would be possible to..." and making it easy to overlook that takes real skill.

Yes. Anyone with physical access has Access.

"In the U.S., it has been estimated that the foldable iPhone may start at or above $1,999"

Awesome.

"Fleet-scale, real-world solar performance ratio declines by 0.59% per year."

I've heard 1% before.

At 0.59%, the panels reach 80% after about 35 years. By which time they may be at 60% of whatever panels are on sale then.

I assume that smuggling drones into the US is easier than it was for Ukraine to smuggle them into Russia.

Its harder. 20% of Russians(my estimate) have connections to Ukraine (relatives, friends, or were born there) and could be Ukrainian agents, there are lots of land routes how you can smuggle stuff. Things are not as well connected between Iran and US.

Agents in the US would just be normal citizens asking for money/crypto. You'd need to find fools to deceive, but a lot of people fall for scams to get small gains. Many hard drug users in particular are often rather self centered in my limited experience.

Or if you wanted to attack refineries, you could possibly select some climate change activists to do it for you?

Or find angry children to do it. Make things go bang for fun.

Our industrial infrastructure appears to be vulnerable to me (as a superficial opinion).

The real fix is to help poor people in other countries to like the US. And work hard at avoiding doing things that radicalise dangerous haters.

I believe all those pools of opportunities are much smaller to what Ukraine has in Russia.

It seems to me that there a large and well-established drug smuggling industry that might be quite interested in Iranian drone technology and has long-established logistics competence regarding transport into the US from distant countries. (I searched for 'fentanyl precursors' now, some search results named very distant sources.)

We're getting into Tom Clancy novel territory here.

You know what they say when you assume.

These people are used to executing civilians when they are the police. That's how IRGC, hamas and hezbollah work. You won't see much action from people like that when they can't just shoot anyone that they don't like.